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Practice Areas: Real Estate, Condemnation, Zoning, Brokerage, Eminent Domain, Municipal and Condemnation Law. General Civil, Federal and Trial Practice.

Additional Information: Mr. Nichols is an attorney in private practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He received a Batchelor of Arts Degree from Syracuse University where he was a New York Regents Scholar. He completed a law degree at the University of Tulsa in 1974. He has served as an Adjunct Professor for the University Of Tulsa and their College Of Law for more than twenty years, teaching classes on Real Property. Mr. Nichols has been an instructor in hundreds of real estate seminars to bar associations and real estate professional groups. He is recognized by the publication Best Lawyers in America and by Best Lawyers.com as well as Tulsa People Magazine as Tulsa's only listed Eminent Domain Lawyer.

Mr. Nichols has acted as lead counsel in over seventy jury trials regarding real estate-related matters. He has served as the Attorney of Record in hundreds of zoning applications before various Planning Commissions and Boards of Adjustment. He has served as Legal Counsel to the Greater Tulsa Association of Realtors (GTAR) for more than three decades, and has participated in hundreds of professional standards (ethics) and arbitration hearings. He has been a member of the Tulsa County Bar and has served as a Delegate to the Oklahoma Bar Association on several occasions and as Tulsa County Law Library Trustee. He is a member of the Owner's Council of America, a group of eminent domain lawyers' limited to one attorney per state. Mr. Nichols is also a member of the Oklahoma Bar Real Estate Section, the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Bar Association. In 2002, Mr. Nichols was appointed by the Oklahoma Bar Association to serve on the Oklahoma Real Estate Commission's Standing Committee, created by the legislation to draft and promulgate state-wide real estate contracts and other real estate forms.

Mr. Nichols' efforts have resulted in the largest jury verdicts in the State of Oklahoma history being awarded to his landowner eminent domain clients.

Editor's note: Bob may be one of the best property owner condemnation lawyers in Tulsa.

Cases:

Tulsa Development Authority v. Charles R. Sturner